Could be a juicy thread; @fchollet challenges me and I reply. I agree with what he says but stand my ground relative to the immense hype that surrounds us.
ETHICS
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AI Hype vs Reality: Early 2023 Predictions Fall Short
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But if you listened to the AI posters from Q1 2023 telling you it was a "civilizational technology" that was a prelude to imminent AGI, that it was going to make you 10x-100x more productive, and that it was going to automate most if not all jobs, then yes, it's a dud. None of
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LLMs Lack Justification Compared to Machine Learning Applications
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So, machine learning not LLMs — there's **no justification** to calling out to these potential applications as an upside of pursuing LLMs (and all their attendant harms).
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PoisonGPT: How Hugging Face LLM Spreads Misinformation
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PoisonGPT: Hugging Face LLM Spreads Fake News: Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant popularity worldwide, but their adoption… #DataAnalytics #DataScience #DataDriven #ITDirector #ITManager #Blockchain #DeepLearning #BusinessIntelligence https://
analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2023/07/p
oisongpt-hugging-face-llm-spreads-fake-news/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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AI Bot Copy Raises IP Rights and Ethics Concerns
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I made an AI bot copy of Yann that’s now automated to take over this spurious malevolent obfuscation denying artist and writers their IP. Yann will now not be invited to speak or teach or write ever again because this Yannbot will do his plagiaristic propaganda for him. Yay!
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Debunking Common ML Misconceptions: Philosophy, Art, Perspective
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Not again We had to dedicate a whole ass section in our paper to debunk this nonsense cause it’s so common. Debunked from a philosophical perspective, ML perspective, art perspective. I don’t know when the paper will be available but it was just presented at AIES.
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Regulators Must Address AI Hallucinations Bias and Innovation Madness
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Thank you all for your leadership, wisdom and tenacity. May the regulators FINALLY heed your warnings and insights and stop the madness of hallucinations, error, bias, marginalization and TechBro ideology passing as “innovation.”
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LLM Hallucinations and Public Safety Regulation Challenges
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I’d say LOL but along with the myth of “watermarking” comes the reality that nobody who is actually regulating will just say, “Programs that have “hallucinations” are programs with ERRORS like telling people to consume poison.” Take them away from the general public. Period.
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Lived Experiences and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in AI Research
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To do this, we use our lived experiences in addition to other expertise, & collaborate with different groups of people following our research philosophy. The biggest way this collaboration happens is by having people at our institute with different types of experiences.
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DAIR Institute: Mitigating AI Issues and Creating Future Technologies
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While I'm here, I also want to note that @DAIRInstitute
, in addition to uncovering + mitigating issues w.r.t. AI, we "cultivate spaces to accelerate imagination & creation of new technologies & tools to build a better future." https://
dair-institute.org/research-philo
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… has our research philosophy.